Category: Paintings
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The Four Holy Gospels, with art by Makoto Fujimura
Okay. I’m probably going to have to spring for a copy of the Four Holy Gospels, with art by Makoto Fujimura. Click the link above and watch the video/look through the sample to see why.
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Google Art Project
The Google Art Project is kind of like Google Maps, but with hundreds and hundreds of works of art from galleries around the world. It’s… well… you’ll just have to go check it out. (Thanks to Craig, my incredibly resourceful father-in-law, for the find.)
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Isle of the Dead, by Arnold Böcklin
The good news about The Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin is that it’s beautiful, and that there are five different versions of it, each one of which is beautiful in its own way. The bad news is that Adolf Hitler liked this painting. He bought it, actually. And Lenin had a print of…
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Storm in the Mountains, by Albert Bierstadt
A Bierstadt for a rainy day. Look at that composition. A circle? For a storm? Genius, I say. (via Art Inconnu)
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Light!
I need to learn about light. Artistically, I live in a world of outlines. Someone help me escape from wireframes and into the atmosphere.